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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: wan-cosa: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:14:13 +0200
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> 	What about the GFP_DMA attribute, which your patch deletes?
> The buffer in question has to be ISA DMA-able.

Thanks for your constructive feedback.

Would you be interested in using a variant of the function "memdup_…"
with which the corresponding memory allocation option can be preserved?

Regards,
Markus